Staff Software Engineer
$250,000–$400,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Compress instrumentation onboarding from days to minutes, scale the telemetry engine into petabytes, and collapse latency from minutes to seconds. Build systems that operate at massive scale and reliability while using AI to solve complex, ambiguous engineering problems. Develop tooling that fundamentally changes how developers understand and operate their systems, moving seamlessly between product, infrastructure, and developer tooling. You will define the approach for ambiguous problems and drive them to completion without constant direction. Help define the product, architecture, engineering culture, and company itself as a founding engineer at a venture-backed startup with $10M in funding, working directly with the founding team to solve problems that don't have playbooks.
Required Qualifications
- Start-up experience
- Currently at a venture-backed pre-IPO AI company that has raised Series A or later
- Previously worked at a top, well-known technology company (Palantir, Affirm, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Stripe, Databricks, Scale AI, Uber, Airbnb, or similar)
- 4+ years of total experience
- 1+ years of hands-on experience using AI to solve complex, unstructured problems
- Level 3 autonomy
- Preferred computer science/engineering background from top engineering college
- Strong systems and software engineering fundamentals
- The ability to move between levels of abstraction—from architecture to implementation to production debugging
- Exceptional communication skills
- A demonstrated edge—something you do exceptionally well that makes you unusually effective
- Someone who gets energized by problems that haven't been solved before
- Need to relocate
Desired Qualifications
- Experience applying AI to developer tooling
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